Registration is required, but the workshop is free to attend. Please visit https://www.publictransformation.org/events/arpws-june25-2024 for more information and to register for this event. Join Department of Public Transportation for the Activate Rural: Cultivating Multi-use Creative Places of Connection to hear from three rural activators in the process of building creative spaces for their communities. Participants will learn how each project is navigating community engagement, funding resources, and structures for stewardship and operations. Be inspired by the activation building projects during a panel discussion moderated by Sarina Otaibi, Activate Rural Program Director, DoPT, with the following panelist speakers: Heidi Danos the Board Co-Chair of Firefly Center for Art and Wellbeing, Kristine Shelstad the Chief Energizing Officer of Madison Art and Innovation Center, and Luwaina Al-Otaibi the Program Coordinator at the YES! House. This workshop is a part of the Activate Rural Public Workshop Series, workshops and sessions designed to offer support, peer learning, and resources to creative entrepreneurs, artists, organizations and small business owners with creative and physical places of connection based in rural Minnesota communities and the Native nations that share with geography, with a population of 20,000 or less. The program is supported, in part, by the State of Minnesota through a grant from The Office of Small Business Development, Department of Employment and Economic Development.